Introducing “Softies,” Our Most Colorful And Playful Icon Set YetAfter the recent release of our flat icons, we decided to focus our next creation on something more colorful, playful and detailed. This icon set, appropriately titled “Softies,” includes 44 beautiful and fun icons. The soft and bright style of these icons is sure to add some color to your website, and we’ve made them pixel perfect at 64px, 128px, and 256px. The package includes PNG images of all three sizes, as well as the original PSD files for each icon so that designers can easily modify them to suite their project’s needs. Did I mention that they are completely free?

Technical Site Checklist 2015Back in 2011, I wrote a technical site audit checklist, and while it was thorough, there have been a lot of additions to what is encompassed in a site audit. I have gone through and updated that old checklist for 2015. Some of the biggest changes were the addition of sections for mobile, international, and site speed. This checklist should help you put together a thorough site audit and determine what is holding back the organic performance of your site. At the end of your audit, don't write a document that says what's wrong with the website.Simple Parallax Scrolling Effect with jQueryInstallation Download and include parallax.min.js in your document after including jQuery. Useage Via data attributes

9 Secret Tips and Tricks for Firefox You Probably Don't Know AboutThis article was first published in Oct 2016 and was updated in May 2017. If Chrome is the Starbucks of Internet browsers, then Firefox is the hip independent cafe – a little less popular but with a better reputation because of its open-source nature and less dubious privacy policies. Like Chrome, Firefox has a lot going on under the hood that you can play around with, tailoring your browsing experience to your personal tastes. Here are five of my favorite tips for Firefox that you may not know about.

iOS apps can be hijacked to show fraudulent content and intercept dataA large number of apps for iPhones and iPads are susceptible to hacks that cause them to surreptitiously send and receive data to and from malicious servers instead of the legitimate ones they were designed to connect to, security researchers said on Tuesday. Researchers from Israel-based Skycure stumbled on the problem when they observed their own app redirecting to a wrong address. The team soon discovered that they could make many other apps exhibit the same behavior. As a result, apps that display news, stock quotes, social media content, or even some online banking details can be manipulated to display fraudulent information and intercept data sent by the end user. After an app has been tampered with once, it will continue to connect to the hacker-controlled server for an extended period of time, with no outward indication it is doing so. The weakness, dubbed HTTP request hijacking (HRH), is estimated to affect at least 10,000 titles in Apple's App Store.

50 (Most) Beautiful Blogger TemplatesThere are tonnes of Blogger templates out there, but we all know it’s hard (or perhaps take times) to find the really nice and high quality ones. So for those who are bored with their current Blogger template and intend to change, we thought your time can be spent better on browsing only the best and nicest among the free Blogger themes. Here’s 50 most beautiful Blogger templates we managed to compile.

Screaming Frog SEOAbout The Tool The Screaming Frog SEO Spider allows you to quickly crawl, analyse and audit a site from an onsite SEO perspective. It’s particularly good for analysing medium to large sites, where manually checking every page would be extremely labour intensive (or impossible!) and where you can easily miss a redirect, meta refresh or duplicate page issue. You can view, analyse and filter the crawl data as it’s gathered and updated continuously in the program’s user interface. The SEO Spider allows you to export key onsite SEO elements (URL, page title, meta description, headings etc) to Excel so it can easily be used as a base for SEO recommendations.

Create a Cool Website with Fancy Scrolling EffectsI’m sure we’re all familiar with the popular parallax effect in web design. It has become a great tool to create a fun browsing experience that responds to the user’s controls as they scroll up and down the page. In this tutorial we’ll use a couple of readily available jQuery plugins to quickly put together a cool little single page website of our own, complete with fancy scrolling effects.